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#COVID19 Thread: Imagine honoring your personal responsibility, mask, social distancing, sanitizing. Rarely leaving home, unless essential like a one supermarket run while observing all the necessary protocols to protect self. YET you wake one morning and don’t feel well, fever.
You are 68, diabetic, so you immediately visit your personal doctor, who gives you antibiotics, and sends you home to rest, bcz there isn’t anything else alarming about your condition. The next day you wake, fever still high you visit doctor again. This time he recommends testing
You go to May Pen Hospital on Fri Sep 11 a little before midday, they do that initial temperature check, and then have you waiting to be attended to ALL day. Sometime after 6pm, they finally inform they will be keeping you for observation.
On Saturday when your family enquired about your status, they are informed, no fever, still observing, but Covid test will be done. Test was then said to be done Saturday afternoon. When asked when the result would be available. “Could be a week.” Direct response.
Of importance, you are on an ‘isolation ward’ that is not accessible to anyone but specific Hospital staff, for understandable reasons. However, it is not a ‘visible’ ward, family cannot see anything happening around there. We just have to take the doctors word.
You are able to speak on your phone, so you have informed your family you have a bed, other ppl are in there, the basics. You got breakfast late (unacceptable for insulin schedule), and can’t believe it’s sardine and bread. You did not eat that.
For the entire week of Sep 14-18, nothing alarming about your condition. But still no test result. Every time family come they just have to drop off what you’ve asked for in terms of water, tissue, juice etc, and call you to ensure it was passed on.
You are in the hospital a full week now, diabetic, doctors (a different one every time btw, often residents/interns) say everything is fine. Except now the oxygen level not at normal rate. You don’t have short of breath or breathing problems. But they’ll put you on oxygen. (???)
At this point my family is beyond concerned, and very suspicious. We can’t see, we are just being told a bunch of things. On Sat Sep 19, still no result, we ask abt the oxygen. Patient said “them nuh put any on me since morning, but wen they did day before nothing in the tank.”
On Sun Sep 20, we are finally told the result is back, it’s positive. They will now keep you on oxygen. When we called you, and told you they said it’s Covid, you were quite surprised, and said they told you nothing. And we should tell the doctor to come talk to you immediately.
On Mon Sep 21, over phone you were asked abt oxygen and confirmed they put on the oxy mask (yet you don’t feel like you getting anything), however we encouraged you to keep it on. We were also informed upon enquiry the hospital has no Vitamin C. Bought our own dropped it off.
On the morning of Tues Sep 22, suddenly ‘oxygen’ (which you previously told us nothing was even in the tank) not reaching your brain, doctors say you appear to be in a state of confusion, “but you’re not critical”....(HOW?) and if sufficient oxygen in deh why it nah reach brain?
On the night of Tues Sep 22, they say you did not make it. And now say your lungs were damaged. But that was only stated then... just like that. The questions are endless.
We will have our private autopsy done. May Pen Hospital was a death sentence. The neglect was heavy. The answers to questions not provided. And we have serious question marks on the oxygen or lack thereof... our private doctor too has questions about that.
We are not settling for the COVID (underlying condition) easiest narrative. And we will not allow the hospital to get away in any shape or form re any misdiagnosis, neglect, and the circumstances surrounding the administering of ‘oxygen’ to lungs being damaged.
Severe lung damage, basic googleable Covid knowledge, yet for an entire week, it was only abt monitoring and waiting on test result... and we were constantly told the vitals were at normal levels.
BTW we didn’t receive hospital call until after 9 Tues night, yet the time of death is 8:15, furthermore at the time of the call, they said “it’s nothing to worry about.” ( I understand protocol not breaking news over phone, BUT do not say ‘nothing to worry about’). Ridiculous.
For an entire week my uncle was in the May Pen Hospital, without a result. Then as soon as the so called ‘COVID’ result arrives, not even two days and he is dead? Note today is Thursday, they reported 1 death yesterday, 1 this morning. So just gwaan PAY ATTENTION.
I shared my family’s current pain and it’s the reality of many others. Feels like a ‘any way you take it macka jook you.’ It’s not to be considered a blame game. But we are in that due diligence assessment of especially the Sun-Tues night time span. What really happened?
And this is not a man who likes ppl at his yard, not even on a regular day,(nuh waan nobody come dirty up the place) that’s his mindset. Worse in COVID. Just a simple retired returning resident(couple yrs)a build back and chill at the family house in Rock River, Clarendon. Gone.
#COVID19UPDATE: Friday, September 25, I have met with the CEO of May Pen Hospital, and I must say I am satisfied with his response and approach. I have some faith we WILL get some answers. Investigations will get underway.
